Dr Russell Thackeray

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A business psychologist, certified coach, trainer and renowned speaker, Dr Russell Thackeray regularly works with the ‘soft issues’ in business by building the strong culture and emotional and mental toughness that allows people to thrive, whatever life throws at them. He is an expert at assisting people and organisations to drive change, achieve goals and win, in a consistent and sustainable way.

Russell can be challenging! Especially with senior groups when driving sustainable change by creating accountability through resilience tactics and techniques. He deploys extraordinary empathy that allows him to work across levels, genders and hierarchies to ensure people are inspired and seize their opportunities in life and work. His fast-paced, impactful and engaging training, workshops and presentations provide real world, practical strategies and skills that improve the performance of organisations and individuals. With his innovative approach to the evaluation of learning in organisations through a highly practical and analytical method, he also helps organisations backs up learning and development with statistical evidence and proof.

Russell’s Career

Russell has substantial and varied experience working within sales and marketing, operational management (including a spell as a CEO in a UK Law Firm) as well as time as an organisational development consultant and coach. He has worked with a diverse range of organisations including Central and Local Government, the National Health Service, Mercedes Benz, GKN, The Guardian, Hyundai, QinetiQ and Asda as well as for Private Equity and Venture Capitalists. As an entrepreneur, he has grown a number of organisations and has worked in the investment space with a number of UK Private Equity companies, including some major UK universities, to help them build the best people to ‘ramp up’ their investments. He is also a non-executive director of a number of digital businesses including lifestyle transformation and cruise travel companies.

Russell is an expert in…

• Managing Stress & Anxiety

• Building Accountability

• Creating a Side-Hustle

• Understanding the methods to find your perfect partner, build a successful relationship and keep it fresh for years.

• Building a Transgender life – Understanding how the personal costs and sacrifices within this community can help all of us become more empathic, confident, resilient and accepting.

• How to build resilient teams and people to reduce stress and sickness.

• Tough Love Leadership – Toolkits for leaders that blend accountability with concern.

• Evaluation – How to take all the learning and development activity in an organisation and prove it adds value without creating an industry or sleepless nights.

Imagine, an HR department that added value rather than just focusing on ‘business prevention’. It’s possible and could transform your workforce and performance.

As a speaker Russell is

• Highly qualified and practical

• Blends a range of solutions and approaches to suit the issue

• Is available for face-to-face or online interviews

• Has an International, UK and US speaking presence

• Works in the corporate and personal sector

Russell’s Recent media activity

Contributed to an article on HerCampus
https://www.hercampus.com/career/handle-toxic-positivity-work

Contributed to an article on Happify
https://www.happify.com/hd/how-to-smooth-your-back-to-work-transition/

Contributed to Love after 50, by Francine Russo (page 33)
https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp//members-only/member-benefits/2021/06/love-after-50-chapter-one.pdf

Contributed to an article on InHerSight
https://www.inhersight.com/blog/career-development/how-to-reach-your-flow-state

Guest on the ‘Lets Talk Sales’ podcast with Elizabeth Fredericks
https://criteriaforsuccess.com/defining-resilience-with-dr-russell-thackeray/

Contributed to an article in Lattice Magazine for HR Professionals
https://lattice.com/library/top-strategies-for-managing-employee-performance

Previous Activity

• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/strive-4-more-lifestyle-podcast/id1473611368?uo=4

• https://industryangel.com/ep192/

• https://www.fastcompany.com/90426781/this-is-what-these-4-vague-comments-youll-hear-at-work-actually-mean

• https://www.oprahmag.com/life/relationships-love/a27790346/benefits-of-being-single/  

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/surprising-benefits-being-single-183200508.html

• https://stewartcoopercoon.com/workplace-strategies/152-resilience-tough-love-superior-performance-in-the-workplace/

• https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-dividends-of-practicing-patience_2865024.html

• https://www.healthline.com/health-news/what-workplace-wellness-programs-can-improve#Not-all-gloom-and-doom-

• https://blog.trello.com/self-care-for-productivity

• https://searchhrsoftware.techtarget.com/feature/6-employee-activism-lessons-HR-needs-today

• http://salesengagement.libsyn.com/the-psychology-of-sales-resilience-w-dr-russell-thackeray

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/workplace-burnout-gets-more-attention-000157410.html

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